kontextmaschine:

Also to anyone complaining about countries devoting resources to this sub, the US maintains deep sea capabilities for reasons of state, which includes deep sea rescue capabilities mostly relating to the SLBM leg of the nuclear triad, this was a free practice scenario and like, enrichment for those guys.

Like Air Force SERE and search & rescue, a lot of this isn’t really justified in terms of per-incident return on investment, but by affecting combatants’ senses of the lethality of defeat it changes their payoff matrices in ways that minimize principal-agent problems.

Same as the Great Ghost Dance or General Butt Naked convincing warriors they had magical protection from the enemy, or Japanese, Christian, or Islamic ideas of death at war as an honor bringing afterlife rewards (with chaplains embedded with armies to reinforce the sense of protection against ultimate annihilation), or even a lot of the function of battlefield medics in an explosive age (from a government perspective a multiple amputee soldier is just as much a total loss as a dead one, and costs for ongoing care besides) – shifting some margin of your forces’ energies from self-protection to mission success is huge

It’s actually pretty impressive that Ghost in the Shell (2017) and Alita: Battle Angel (2019) beat Bungie’s 2001 Oni for most outdated take on mid-90s anime by so far just a few years ahead of 90s retro kicking off for real.

kontextmaschine:

caesarsaladinn:

rugratfairy:

rugratfairy:

if i ever write something set in the united states im just going to do zero research whatsoever and make stuff up to sound cool it’s equality

the lush impenetrable jungles of massachusetts

try driving through the historic part of Boston and you’ll see that this is true

New England was heavily forested, its major utility on behalf of Britain was producing wood (incl. large old-growth trees for unspliced masts) and sap-derived tar for sealing ships (also ashes for lye production!) it was essentially a EUIV Naval Supplies province.

Like, we chalk “Mongols knew how to tap and drink the blood of horses to sustain themselves in desolate terrain” up to Mongols just being a very horse-centric culture, have you ever thought about what it means that New Englanders make maple syrup by tapping and drinking the blood of trees in snowbound winter?

caesarsaladinn:

rugratfairy:

rugratfairy:

if i ever write something set in the united states im just going to do zero research whatsoever and make stuff up to sound cool it’s equality

the lush impenetrable jungles of massachusetts

try driving through the historic part of Boston and you’ll see that this is true

New England was heavily forested, its major utility on behalf of Britain was producing wood (incl. large old-growth trees for unspliced masts) and sap-derived tar for sealing ships (also ashes for lye production!) it was essentially a EUIV Naval Supplies province.

f0rgemaster:

tropijcal:

Uruk, Iraq 

The sorta literal translation from the arabic is so much more beautiful

“From here rose the first written letter, (finding its way) to every point on earth”

I like this version more

And look how far they’ve come

mapsontheweb:

Population density of Australia.

by u/graphicly_

Australia is basically an island chain with a really dry sea in the middle

aorish-deactivated20251222:

I feel like Ea-nasir was probably a fictional character? like it was some 17th century BCE scribal school exercise to write a letter to a merchant about his copper being bad, and that’s why there were so many texts all complaining about the same guy’s shitty copper. I mostly think this because many of the other ancient mesopotamian texts we have appear to be part of a scribal curriculum called the Decad, and they are apparently also found in large volumes together. but admittedly i don’t have any more defensible reasons to believe this, it’s just a hunch

So he’s like Cousin Throckmorton?

Twice Badger came home last night and dropped off some bounty in front of me hoping for a reward and it was rotting bacon

notthateither:

funnytwittertweets:

Americans making up the weird-ass fake name “Waldo” instead of using the real normal name “Wally” that the rest of the world uses is so strange

It’s German. The early population of America was heavily German – with no overseas colonies of their own, the German diaspora (starting before German unification, of course) spread through the Americas – the thing about Nazis expatriating to Argentina postwar was that was the most advanced Germanophone community outside the WWII combatants – but a serious ethnosuppressionist campaign around entry to WWI has obscured this ever since.

“Oh in the ‘10s the culture’s courtship practices totally collapse, but decent autistic queer ones actually develop, and then in the '20s you turn queer and out to have been autistic all along” actually a pretty good synecdoche of my cultural whiplash lately

thepaintedladycollection:

I still can’t believe that Thomas Andrews the man who designed the Titanic ship sank with it and 111 years later, Stockton Rush the person who designed the Titanic submarine also sank with it at the same spot

mercuryfountain-deactivated2024:

Well I could give you the serious answer or I could tell you that being called cis doesn’t make my dick hard

161afa1312acab:

Has anyone brought up that that sub looks like a Fleshlight?

determinate-negation:

i could see myself getting really into sanitation i just lovee when things are cleaned and collected and organized and transferred and so on what is it about waste management that just makes sense

It’s also an often-overlooked necessary function such that by establishing hegemony over it you can exert substantial influence on the broader society. The Italian and American Mafias both leveraged this!

funnytwittertweets:

raginrayguns:

fruityyamenrunner:

raginrayguns:

fruityyamenrunner:

raginrayguns:

raginrayguns:

i want to go to greggs. How come there’s no greggs here. Once upon a time the British colonized the globe now they can’t even open a Gregg’s in my city

*me at Starbucks* I wish this was Gregg’s

*me at Dunkin Donuts* I wish this was Gregg’s

*me at McDonald’s* I wish this was Gregg’s

*me at Pret a Manger* I wish this was Gregg’s

*me at Einstein Bros* I wish this was Gregg’s

Greggs will have to work hard to succeed overseas | Shares Magazine

The company sees potential longer term for international expansion. It is probably a good thing that Greggs is treading cautiously here, in its own words ‘conducting some very early analysis to help better understand the possible opportunity’.

Just because a proposition works in the UK doesn’t mean it will necessarily translate beyond these borders. Overseas markets have often been a graveyard for the ambitions of British firms in the past as they’ve struggled to replicate their homeland success, perhaps because of cultural or management issues. Greggs itself abandoned a five-year effort in Belgium (seen as a launchpad for wider European expansion) in 2008.

For now, investors would settle for execution on the domestic opportunity. This won’t be easy, given the inflationary pressures, supply chain issues and staff shortages which Greggs, like any number of businesses, is facing.

imagine *american voice* tipping your server at Greggs. cultural issues.

oh i had read about the Belgium locations, even that didnt work out i guess…

“your server at greggs”? Isnt it counter service? We dont tip for that

my god, you don’t tip for counter service. you want them to starve…

*you at Tim Hortons* Eh?

triviallytrue:

One thing that’s important for everyone who wants to Make Number Go Up to know is that getting famous on tumblr is a very bad way to do it. I’m not like, tumblr famous, but based on the polls that float around, I’m around 97th percentile in follower count - my blog is around ten years old and I’ve been making original posts consistently for close to 4 years now

Within 3 months of joining TikTok, one of my good friends had well over 3 times my current tumblr follower count from a single viral TikTok. And it wasn’t even, like, viral viral!

I’m on here because the way people go viral and build followings on sites like TikTok and twitter scares me. I like gaining followers and getting notes but I also like being in my tiny corner of the internet and not being exposed to The Horrors. If you’re mad about not getting enough reblogs, go post on twitter!

The flip side of this is you have appreciably more traction on a follower’s life here on [tumblr], the connections are less promiscuously numerous but thicker

::thinks about ritual bathing/cleansing in major world religions::

Wait a second, if my hair’s “no-poo” shampoo-free am I ritually unclean? Can’t be, shampoo only spread from India in the 19th century. Am I like, unclean for Mormon purposes or anything?

obiternihili:

kontextmaschine:

obiternihili:

kontextmaschine:

dumbfilmschoolkid:

While every force available in the world is searching for the 5 people in the oceangate submersible, a boat filled with mostly Syrian and Pakistani refugees sank under still “unknown” circumstances off the coast of Peloponnisos, Greece (with the coast guard present). More than 600 people drowned but guess which of the two is making headlines

I mean, they will! They were going to already, now you’ve just volunteered that to represent a failure on behalf of your movement. What are we even doing here?

how have i volunteered anything? what are you talking about?

this happened before the sub even went missing and the coverage is absolutely disproportional

The wreck of the Titanic is in the Atlantic, which is not the Agean or “Europe’s Biggest Migrant’s Cemetery” – the Mediterranean – how are you even bringing the sub into this? Their issue is about Europe accepting and not mitigating the hazards of arrival by sea so as to maintain their effect as an illicit migration deterrent, and in that context I continue to ask — what are we even doing here?

The sub is mentioned in their post???

They’re complaining about asymmetrical media coverage

one of these events involved the loss of 120 times the lives of the other and should be a much bigger controversy than it is being treated as, with continuous coverage and international condemnation

how is this confusing to you?

Oh my commentary is exclusively in relation to the pictures. So “they will” is meaning “tourists will enjoy their swim/cruise”, not “600 people drowned will make headlines”

st-just:

Cyberpunk by Yevhenii Mishenin

This is just Witchblade greebling with the “Organic” slider turned down